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iPod dying

by on07 August 2009

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There is
evidence to suggest that Apple's cash cow, the iPod is dying and fewer people are buying the gizmo. iPod sales revenues are apparently dropping and being eclipsed by revenues for Macs and iPhones.

A new market analysis conducted by stock market day trader Andy Zaky said that iPod sales revenues have dropped from their longtime Number 1 spot in the company to Number 3, behind Macintosh computers and iPhones.

Zaky said iPod revenue share at Apple fell to 18 percent in the last quarter, compared to almost 56 percent back in 2006. The iPod's doom was long predicted and Zaky said that Apple was still firing on all cylinders thanks to the explosive growth of the iPhone.

Technology wise too Apple seems to have lost interest in the gizmo. Even Microsoft's Zune has more functionality at the moment. But it is starting to look as if, like the walkman before it, people are waking up to the fact that walking down the street with a pair of white earphones is not exactly the coolest thing you can do.

Walking into lamposts while listening to Coldplay is probably the most stupid act a modern human can manage short of investing in Enron. (Don't they get the same earphones on the iPhones they migrated to from iPods? sub.ed.)

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